Brian Harring wrote:
Brian: Is this sort of thing best handled in bash ala bashrc, or is
there a good entry point in the portage code to plug this stuff in
pythonically?
Kicking around something that would allow setups the ability to plug in
chunks of code for doing things prior/post merge...
So, hooking within the python side would be possible, and prefered.
Basically is how collision-protect/setuid scans will be implemented,
and probably triggering ldconfig runs even (assuming it works sanely).
Less cruft jammed into bash, the better. :)
~harring
I personally think this script should be seen as 'proof-of-concept'.
It's not too fast, and it involves a lot of inefficient work. I'm no
python coder, but I think, given this 'proof-of-concept' it may be
fairly simple to write a function (?) or two in python that performs
this job a few orders of a magnitude faster and more controllable.
The problem with these kinds of scripts is that their portability is not
really assured. I dubbed whether I would write a quick C version, but
again I stumbled upon the portability question and decided not to do so,
because portage, as inner core of Gentoo, should be as much as possible
unaffected by environmental differences. Python is (like Java) a
solution to that. So, ultimately, this script should be rewritten in
Python.
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